368 THEOSOPHY EXPLAINED

who recognise and realise a close fellowship and a feeling
of real unity, can hope to have the privilege of being
chosen to serve Them.

But different nations ought to be drawn together
in brotherly feeling especially now as per teachings of the
World-Teacher who has recently come—the Bodhisattva
of the Buddhist, the Christ of the Christian, the Shri
Krishna of the Hindu, the Lord Maitreya, the great spirit-
ual Teacher who is at present founding a Kingdom of
Happiness on our earth.

Q. Are we united only to the human family by ties of
brotherhood ?

Ans. As explained in Chapter VIII on Evolution,
there are six other kingdoms in nature, and we are closely
linked with all of them. The life sustaining our physical
bodies has passed through all these kingdoms and has there
built up more and more evolved and complicated forms
which have eventually developed into human bodies. Not
only that, but we are dependent even now for our very exis-
tence on the work of these lower kingdoms, especially of
the vegetable and the animal kingdoms.

Again, we share the Divine Life, not only with every
human being, but with every animal, plant and stone, and
even with every particle or atom in all kingdoms, with every-
thing that is. The Divine Life is the spirit in everything
that exists from the atom to the archangel, as explained
for c the Immanence of God ? in Chapter I, and thus the
inner unity, the One Life dwelling equally in all, shows
that there is not only a Brotherhood of Humanity, but an
all-embracing fraternity, a universal brotherhood in nature.

Professor Overstreet, while trying to show how
the conception of God is gradually changing from that
of an extra-cosmic judge to that of an immanent Presence